Olney , Herbert

- bn London 1856 d. Christchurch 2 December 1895. Layman. Member Oxford Tce, serving as Deacon, Sunday School Superintendent and Treasurer. Treasurer Canterbury Baptist Assn 1894. Vice-President, Union and Missionary Society 1894/5. A successful Christchurch businessman (haberdashery), Olney had been a member of Charles Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle and educated in Switzerland before coming to N.Z. He called for Bible teaching in Schools in 1894, a motion defeated at Canterbury Assn. He was influenced by Conditional Immortality views and Rev. C.C. Brown spoke at his funeral. Refs: Obituaries: NZB January 1896, 5; Bible Standard January 1896, 10.